Western Wireless developed rebuttal to recent OPASTCO white paper...
Western Wireless developed rebuttal to recent OPASTCO white paper that urged regulators to be more careful in giving universal service support to wireless companies that competed against rural ILECs (CD Jan 22 p9). Among Western Wireless’s points: (1) Rural…
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customers should have access to service comparable in price and quality to urban areas and “from a range of competitive service providers.” (2) Congress didn’t intend for high-cost support to flow to only one eligible telecom carrier (ETC), “nor only to the first service provider to be designated in a study area.” (3) FCC was “exactly right when it created the presumption that a rural area will benefit from competition unless solid economic data is presented to show that funding to more than one ETC promotes uneconomic competition.” Western Wireless Vp Gene Dejordy is to appear on panel with OPASTCO Pres. John Rose at Legg Mason telecom conference in N.Y. today (Feb. 13).